Diploma: Consumer Science in Food and Nutrition (Extended Curriculum Programme) at Cape Peninsula University of Technology

The purpose of the Diploma in Consumer Science: Food and Nutrition is to deliver graduates who would be able to combine science-based food and nutrition knowledge and culinary skills in fresh convenience food production, food retail and food service with the aim of promoting consumer well-being. Access to healthy and safe food is high on the national agenda. This has necessitated the need for qualified graduates with a sound knowledge of both food and nutrition. Offering type listed: FULLTIME - DISTRICT 6 CAMPUS.

Faculty: Faculty of Applied Sciences  |  Department: Biotechnology and Consumer Sciences  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

What you will study

Subjects listed on the programme page include Applied Sciences: Introduction; Food Communication; Food Production and Service Operations 1; Food: Science and Practice 1; Nutrition 1; Consumer Retailing.

Career pathways

A wide choice of career destinations in the fresh convenience food production industry and in food retail and food service is offered. Former students are working in test kitchens: formulating and developing recipes for food production, training employees in retail and food production companies, implementing quality control systems, advising consumers on food and nutrition products, managing the production of convenience food products, supervising food retail departments and managing food service facilities. Students also have the background to become entrepreneurs as the knowledge and skills needed to start an own business is developed by combining business subjects with food and nutrition knowledge and culinary skills.

Official programme page